The Wheel of Time
Season 1
8 listed hours · 2021–2025 · Prime Video
From the desk
How this season is filed
Amazon's other big fantasy: channeling, chosen ones, and a book fandom acting as permanent co-showrunner. Rosamund Pike anchors adaptation triage while lore-change flame wars rage in the comments. Watch for epic-scale craft that still has to negotiate with fourteen novels, and for a Dragon Reborn story that never quite belongs to one person.
TV Flash files Season 1 of The Wheel of Time (2021–2025) on Prime Video as the first listed season of 3 — 8 listed hours, 2021-11-19–2021-12-24 from “Leavetaking” (S01E01) to “The Eye of the World” (S01E08). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Leavetaking
Leavetaking as Amazon's other-fantasy door: Rosamund Pike anchoring adaptation triage, chosen-one grammar, lore-change flame wars already in the comments.
- S01E07 The Dark Along the Ways
The Dark Along the Ways as late-season-one road: the titled path, still chosen-one craft, still an adaptation living in the flame war on purpose.
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S01E01 Leavetaking
A strange noblewoman arrives in a remote mountain village, claiming one of five youths is the reincarnation of an ancient power who once destroyed the world – and will do so again, if she's not able to discover which of them it is. But they all have less time than they think.
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S01E02 Shadow's Waiting
Moiraine and Lan lead the four villagers to safety, unsure which is the one from the prophecy. But the friends are equally unsure about their rescuers, especially once they see how far Moiraine is willing to go for her mission – and how far astray Lan is willing to lead them.
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S01E03 A Place of Safety
Moiraine and Lan find help in an unexpected – and unwanted – quarter, as the separated villagers try to find their way back to each other, or at least to refuge. But they all soon learn how far the Dark One's reach extends, and how few they can trust on the road.
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S01E04 The Dragon Reborn
Moiraine struggles with uncertainty while Lan struggles with their new companion. Rand wonders about Mat and Mat starts to wonder at himself. Egwene and Perrin take their first steps down a different path. An incredible new power is unleashed on the world.
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S01E05 Blood Calls Blood
Perrin and Egwene run into a familiar face. Mat and Rand see strange ones. Moiraine and Lan mourn their loss.
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S01E06 The Flame of Tar Valon
Moiraine faces the consequences of her actions. Mat faces the darkness in himself. Egwene faces the most powerful woman in the world.
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S01E07 The Dark Along the Ways
Moiraine and her charges are diverted from their path by an unexpected encounter. This diversion, though, reveals many things — Moiraine's true goal, Lan's past, the fractures that have grown in the group, and the identity of the Dragon Reborn.
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S01E08 The Eye of the World
For twenty years, Moiraine has dreamed and worked towards this moment. But she can't stop the Dragon Reborn from seeing the appeal of the Dark.
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